Longing Quotes

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

I'm doing lots of interviews and stuff. I'm longing for the days of getting up, not having to put on makeup and do my hair and just going to the studio.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

All your desires, whatever they may be, are expressions of your longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

All human eyes have longing in them.

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step along the way will be determined by it.

The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.

Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious!

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

I have a longing for fiction - to try to believe in it and to disappear into it.

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

My love is as a fever, longing still.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.

Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.

Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.

Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

My library is an archive of longings.

Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

I craved your warmth. I hugged myself, rubbing my fingers up and down. I guess people are like insects sometimes, drawn to heat, A kind of infra-red longing.

Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption.

If we really face our sadness, we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing. And if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us the way to attain what we long for.

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!